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What was the first game show you remember watching
BrandonFG:
[quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Oct 3 2003, 12:36 PM\'] Well... my first faint memory involved a show with some of the weirdest think music I had ever heard. Then there were a bunch of X's and O's everywhere. Seeing it reran on GSN in 1999 confirmed what I saw was Wink's TTD when I was two or three years old.
My first clear memory of a game show is WoF and Wink's HR.
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I remember being fascinated by this multi-colored game board, where the strips alternated colors. It turned out to be the Tune Topics board from Lange's NTT, which was 84-85, so age 2 or 3. I also remember TJW coming on in the afternoon (I think the two shows aired together on WVEC by this point), and all I can remember is the neon joker, which looked VERY different when I saw it on GSN about 15 years later.
For some reason, I don't remember watching Barker on TPiR until the late 80s, but I remember the Kennedy version like the back of my own hand. And finally, I remember this Whoopi Goldberg movie c. 1986 where there's a clip of $otC being played, in the speed round IIRC...anyone know what movie?
Dbacksfan12:
[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Oct 3 2003, 03:41 PM\'] [quote name=\'Brandon Brooks\' date=\'Oct 3 2003, 12:36 PM\'] Well... my first faint memory involved a show with some of the weirdest think music I had ever heard. Then there were a bunch of X's and O's everywhere. Seeing it reran on GSN in 1999 confirmed what I saw was Wink's TTD when I was two or three years old.
My first clear memory of a game show is WoF and Wink's HR.
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I remember being fascinated by this multi-colored game board, where the strips alternated colors. It turned out to be the Tune Topics board from Lange's NTT, which was 84-85, so age 2 or 3. I also remember TJW coming on in the afternoon (I think the two shows aired together on WVEC by this point), and all I can remember is the neon joker, which looked VERY different when I saw it on GSN about 15 years later.
For some reason, I don't remember watching Barker on TPiR until the late 80s, but I remember the Kennedy version like the back of my own hand. And finally, I remember this Whoopi Goldberg movie c. 1986 where there's a clip of $otC being played, in the speed round IIRC...anyone know what movie? [/quote]
My first memory was watching TJW on USA in 1987...and when the Finn version came appeared in about 92 thinking...\"what is this?!?\"
Clay Zambo:
NBC Concentration. Must have seen a Fleming Jeopardy! in there, too, but I don't remember that as distinctly. Seems to me Concentration was on opposite reruns of The Beverly Hillbillies.
inturnaround:
Growing up in the 80s, I was a Tic Tac Dough fan. The music was cool and I loved the footage they'd show when they were hyping a trip to Hong Kong. I thought that when you went to Hong Kong, you'd see everything poorly shot and very 70s-ish.
Like nWo, I was afraid of the dragon. Hey, what kid wasn't? ROAR!
Still the sound effects for TTD were my favorite. I remember beeping along when they shuffled the board. And humming along with the think music.
ChuckNet:
My first memories are of early '80s shows like TJW, TTD, FF (Dawson), Dream House, and Pitfall.
Chuck Donegan (The Illustrious \"Chuckie Baby\")
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